More about summer jobs...
For those of you interested in working in Taiwan this summer,
So... TPR Taiwan is just like The Princeton Review in the US, except we also have English classes (called Targeted Learning, or TL). Teachers coming for the summer would most likely be trained in SAT and TL, and possibly TOEFL. We also do, uh, everything else (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, etc.) but you'd almost definitely be doing those for the summer. You can't come to teach for less than basically 3 months because the training is pretty intensive.
Training for TOEFL will probably be in May, and training for the others will probably be in June. You'd be teaching June, July, and August, most likely. There's a chance you'd be sent to another city for one session, but only if you agreed. You'd have to be hired sometime before that, but I don't know exactly when.
Another thing is that the main requirement (besides giving the overall impression that you'd be a smart, reliable, respectable, enthusiastic teacher) is scoring above the 95th percentile on either a test you've taken in the last few years (the GREs or something) or on an SAT diagnostic that the office would send you. I don't think that should be a problem for most of you, but it's not super easy either.
It is totally doable to come to Taipei even if you don't speak Chinese, as long as you're not too shy. You'll have to get a place to live and stuff, but TPR will deal with the visa situation. The best thing would be to apply to get a 90-day traveler's visa in the US so you will have longer than the 30 days a landing visa gives you. A traveler's visa DOES NOT allow you to work unless you transfer to a work visa, so you wouldn't say anything about working to the consulate people.
The starting hourly pay for teachers last summer was NT$650 for classes and NT$800 for tutoring. You also get paid for training, office work/grading, and some other random stuff, but it's less. You could be taxed at the foreigner rate of 20%. Our rent here is NT$16,000 total for the two of us.
Anyway, people here are serious about hiring you, so if you're interested you should email Ben Redhead (benjamin@princetonreview.com.tw) and tell him you're my friend and ask him any questions or whatever.
I am so excited that you all responded! I hope some of you decide to come!
So... TPR Taiwan is just like The Princeton Review in the US, except we also have English classes (called Targeted Learning, or TL). Teachers coming for the summer would most likely be trained in SAT and TL, and possibly TOEFL. We also do, uh, everything else (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, etc.) but you'd almost definitely be doing those for the summer. You can't come to teach for less than basically 3 months because the training is pretty intensive.
Training for TOEFL will probably be in May, and training for the others will probably be in June. You'd be teaching June, July, and August, most likely. There's a chance you'd be sent to another city for one session, but only if you agreed. You'd have to be hired sometime before that, but I don't know exactly when.
Another thing is that the main requirement (besides giving the overall impression that you'd be a smart, reliable, respectable, enthusiastic teacher) is scoring above the 95th percentile on either a test you've taken in the last few years (the GREs or something) or on an SAT diagnostic that the office would send you. I don't think that should be a problem for most of you, but it's not super easy either.
It is totally doable to come to Taipei even if you don't speak Chinese, as long as you're not too shy. You'll have to get a place to live and stuff, but TPR will deal with the visa situation. The best thing would be to apply to get a 90-day traveler's visa in the US so you will have longer than the 30 days a landing visa gives you. A traveler's visa DOES NOT allow you to work unless you transfer to a work visa, so you wouldn't say anything about working to the consulate people.
The starting hourly pay for teachers last summer was NT$650 for classes and NT$800 for tutoring. You also get paid for training, office work/grading, and some other random stuff, but it's less. You could be taxed at the foreigner rate of 20%. Our rent here is NT$16,000 total for the two of us.
Anyway, people here are serious about hiring you, so if you're interested you should email Ben Redhead (benjamin@princetonreview.com.tw) and tell him you're my friend and ask him any questions or whatever.
I am so excited that you all responded! I hope some of you decide to come!